“For every piece that is rejected, at least one other person has read it, thought about it…” By Chris Brauer, WTP Guest Writer I read somewhere that, as a writer, I should aim for a hundred rejection letters a year. The theory is that if one submits a flood of work onto the world—enough to…
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Book Review: The Hidden Machinery
Ore in Every Rift of Livesey’s Apologia and Guide By Dewitt Henry, Literary Bookmarks Editor THE HIDDEN MACHINERY: ESSAYS ON WRITING by Margot Livesey (Tin House Books, 2017). 301pp, paper, $15.95. MFA programs are descendants of the “how to be a successful writer” handbooks in the 1890s (see “Handbooks and Workshops” in Andrew Levy’s 1993…